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TRIED AND TESTED: PART 1 – CAN YOU PICTURE THIS?
In this two-part series, we look at working with art in coaching. Part 1: One way to get clients unstuck is to break out of the straitjacket of words by using diagrams and pictures. Sarah Gornall and Jenny Bird report We’ve all had times when we get embroiled in...
HOW TO… MAXIMISE AN APPRENTICESHIP LEVY INVESTMENT
All employers with an annual pay bill of more than £3 million must pay a levy of 0.5% on it, to be recouped by employing apprentices. How can employers and coaches/mentors ensure this investment is maximised? By Annette Allmark Research indicates that 80% of companies...
RESEARCH MATTERS: THE FORGOTTEN CUSTODIANS
The benefits of mentoring and coaching have never been so widely accepted, but do we recognise and value the skills and knowledge of those who develop and operate our mentoring schemes and coaching programmes, and what do we know about mentoring scheme and coaching...
MENTORING: GO GIRLS, GO!
Lis Merrick explores the most recent innovative practice in mentoring female talent Women’s presence on the board has been proven to add competitive advantage to a business (Grant Thornton International; Davies Review, both 2015). Yet, despite about the same number of...
BOOK REVIEWS
The Cross-Cultural Coaching Kaleidoscope: A Systems Approach to Coaching Amongst Different Cultural Influences Jenny Plaister-Ten Karnac Books (Professional Coaching Series) 978 17804 9096 0 4 out of 5 Coaching is a global phenomenon, but its model of practice was...
IT’S A FUNNY OLD WORLD
In this column, we provoke fresh thinking and round up some of the weird, wonderful, quirky, surprising – and shocking – stories out there Fair cop If a client has a career dream of becoming a chief constable yet no background in the police force, they could still...